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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 May 2018

Grapples with eternal questions of faith, to be sure, but confronts just as powerfully, if not more so, the urgent matter of how to live a…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 May 2018

It is an exquisite piece of filmmaking and also a blunt, pulpy instrument, a despairing, fully sustained howl of a movie that is easily this…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 16 May 2018

Ambitious Paul Schrader drama ultimately loses its way…

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By Oliver Whitney (71) for ScreenCrush (954) on 16 May 2018

What begins as a patient and unvarnished look inside one man's depression escalates into a crazed psychic and spiritual unravelling…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 16 May 2018

Schrader has made his best film in years with his eco-warrior country priest…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 15 May 2018

It’s a powerful, disturbing crisis of faith drama that takes on the raiments of a thriller, and a tour de force for the understated acting…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 15 May 2018

First Reformed is rigorously austere (as befits the author of Transcendental Style in Film), but every frame suggests a longing for a world…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 15 May 2018

Not only is this faith-in-crisis drama one of the legendary writer-director's most incendiary films ever, it's one of the year's very best…

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By J.r. Kinnard (152) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 15 May 2018

Schrader dissects the roots, hypocrisies and virtues of Christianity through a series of increasingly troubling symbols…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 14 May 2018

Harrowing, but with a wry humor, and utterly transporting, Paul Schrader has synthesized his complex religious upbringing with modern anxieties…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 14 May 2018

The first two-thirds of this film are utterly riveting... but in the final act... the story threatens to devolve into some sort of eco-thriller…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2018

The conflicts Schrader exposes are too pressing, too raw, too obvious in their own right to demand subtlety…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for National Review (314) on 14 May 2018

It's an exacting film, substantial and suspenseful, one of the best of the year so far…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 13 May 2018

A dazzling exploration of the soul of a reverend overwhelmed by his guilt over the death of his son in Iraq…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 13 May 2018

Nobody, not even a hard-core Schrader fan, could claim that First Reformed makes for easy listening, or viewing…

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By Greg Cwik (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 10 May 2018

After more than 20 features, Paul Schrader has been reborn with First Reformed, an unhurried, furious, deeply agonized look at faith and skepticism…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 06 May 2018

Shot in 1.37:1 aspect ratio, and devoid of a conventional musical score, it's an austere examination of devotion, grief, self-loathing and…

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By Christopher Llewellyn Reed (298) for Hammer to Nail (208) on 03 May 2018

First Reformed is a carefully composed and constructed film that should probably be seen more than once, with cinematic rewards aplenty for…

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By Aliza Ma (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 02 May 2018

Singular in its distillation of Schrader's decades-spanning preoccupations of film criticism and filmmaking as well as his religious background,…

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By Alex Arabian (61) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 16 Apr 2018

A trio of staggering performances by Hawke, Seyfried, and Cedric the Entertainer, a gripping story that mines our current sociopolitical landscape…

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